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Ukraine’s working group on security reconvenes for talks in Minsk
The previous round of talks of the trilateral contact group was held in the Belarusian capital on 20 April. …read more Source:...
George Osborne cosies up to political journalists at Westminster correspondents dinner
The Washington version of this dinner might get all the global attention (it’s happening tomorrow night), but George Osborne did his best to catch up on Thursday night, professing near endless love for journalists and entertaining them with swipes at his Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson. The Chancellor hasn’t had the smoothest of...
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[Ticker] Russia blames Sweden for frosty relations
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov told Swedish media he regretted that Stockholm cooled relations with Moscow “after Brussels was somehow offended by our response to the state-armed coup in Kiev” in 2014. He said the Baltic states aren’t grateful enough to Russia for letting them go without large-scale bloodshed in 1991. …read more...
[Ticker] German MEP backs Russia on Crimea
German MEP Marcus Pretzell, a non-attached from the populist anti-refugee party Alternative for Germany (AfD), was guest of honor at an event in the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula. Invited by Moscow, Pretzell said the AfD poses a “threat to the Ukrainian government” and the German government, reports Spiegal Online. …read...
UN says 9,333 killed since Ukraine conflict began
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Belgium plans to hand out iodine pills in case of nuclear emergency
Belgium is considering handing out iodine tablets to the entire population in the event of a nuclear emergency. The pills are used to lessen the impact of radiation on the thyroid gland, and can reduce the risk of thyroid cancer after exposure. The measure was recommended by the Superior Health Council as part of a revision of the country’s...
In the loop April 28: Chernobyl, Italian-Austrian border, Google competition, tobacco lobby
This week POLITICO’s lobbying reporter James Panichi talks with energy reporter Kalina Oroschakoff about the 30 year anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Antitrust and competition reporter Nicholas Hirst joins to discuss the Commission’s accusations against Google for abusing its dominant position on the market. Jacopo Barigazzi...
Soviet apocalypse
“MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union,” reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the exercise books scattered on the floor of an abandoned school in Pripyat, a Soviet-era ghost town in Ukraine next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The town, built for the plant’s workers and their families, was evacuated on the afternoon of April...
France’s lower house calls on EU to lift Russia sanctions
PARIS — France’s lower house of parliament adopted a resolution Thursday calling for the European Union to lift its economic sanctions against Russia, though less than a fifth of the chamber participated in the vote. Of the National Assembly’s 577 MPs, 101 voted. Fifty-five voted in favor and 44 were against the resolution, which...
Throwing events in Brest welcome athletes from four countries
The two-day competitions in hammer, discus, javelin throwing and shot-putting will be held at the Brest Sport Center. Partaking in the events will be more than 200 athletes from Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and Moldova. …read more Source:...
